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M. J. MCANENY .VALVE DEVICE 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Oct. 18, 1922 Human: x I. v I

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MICHAEL J. MGANENY, 03 DENVER, COLORADO.

VALVE DEVICE' Application filed October 18, 1922.

T all whom e't may concern.

Be it known that l, Mrorranr. J. halo- ANENY, a citizen of the United States, re-

, siding at Denver, in the county of Denver (-3 and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful improvement in Valve Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in valve-devices, and is fully described and re explained in the specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view, partly sectional, showing the valve device operatively applied to a water-closet bowl of special conto struction;

Figure 2 is a broken view of the same in side elevation;

Figure 3 is an enlarged broken view of a section on line 33, Fig. 1;

Figure 4 is a partly broken view illustrating a vertical section on line 44, Fig. 5, showing the valve-device in exaggerated size;

Figure 5 is a section on line 55, Fig. 4; Figure 6 is a broken view illustrating a portion of the valve-device in elevation as represented at the right-hand side of Fig. 2, but enlarged over that showing, and

Figure 7 is a broken sectional view on line 77, Fig. 5.

A valve-casing 8 (Fig. 4) has a hollow flanged neck 9 screwed into its upper end and surmounted by a piston-cylinder 10 having its upper end closed by a screw-cap as 11 centrally from which a chamber 12 rises, provided with a vent-hole 12 in its upper end. A valve 13 has a rubber gasket 13 confined against its face to bear against a seat 14 formed about an opening in the bottom of the valve-casing, from which a tubular extension 15 depends and a nipple 16 projects laterally. The valve is formed on the lower end of a hollow valve-stem section 17 slidably fitting within the lower part of the neck 9 and secured about the lower length of the valve-stem proper 17 by a hollow plug 18 screwed into the lower end of the section 17 about the stem 17 on the lower end of which a nut 18* is screwed against the plug to lock it in place, wherein the plug bears against the gasket 13 The valve-stein 17 is provided with an enlargement 17 to fit, like the section 17 but above it, within the neck 9, and the stem extends from this enlargement centrally through the Serial No. 595,338.

cylinder 10 into the vented chamber 12, wherein it carries on itsupper end a headforming nut 17 shown to be recessed about its under face. Suitable packing is shown at 17 (Fig. 1) to be provided about the valve-stem between its enlargements 17 and 17 A spring-pressed piston 19 works in the cylinder 10 and is loose about the valvestem portion therein, which is loosely surrounded by an externally-threaded sleeve 19 rising from and carrying the piston, the latter being provided with suitable packing 19* secured in place by a nut 19 having an internally-threaded collar 19 screwed on the sleeve 19 against the packing. A coiled spring 20 surrounds the valve-stem in the cylinder, being endwise confined between the nut 17, at the recess therein, and the shoulder-forming end of a collar 19 on the nut 19; and another coiled spring 21 surrounds the spring 20 in the cylinder and is endwise confined between a shoulder 12 in the cap 11 and the nut 19".

A tubular duct 22 connects the nipple 16 with the lower end of the cylinder 10 at the inlet 10 thereof and has interposed in it a valve-chamber 23 containing a rotary spring-pressed valve 24 (Fig. 7), normally maintained in the position, shown in Fig. 4, of closing the duct by a spring 24 coiled about its projecting end (Fig. 6), which carries a curved finger 24 or handle by which to manipulate the valve for turning it to register its port with the passage through the duct 22.

Opposite the inlet of the duct 22 into the cylinder 10 there leads therefrom a discharge-outlet 25 communicating with a passage 26 to a hollow head 27 having a depending tubular stern 27 entering the up per end of a vertical pipe 28, which terrninates at its lower end in a chamber 28", or enlargement discharging into the tubular extension 15. A needle-valve 29 works in the head 27 for regulating, as and for the purpose hereinafter explained, the rate of evacuation of the chamber or space beneath the piston in the cylinder 10, of liquid fed thereto.

While my valve-device is advantageously useful in various connections wherein it is desirable to produce a sudden gush of liquid or other fluid under pressure into a receptacle, and particularly in measured or predetermined quantity, as, for example, at automobile filling-stations for supplying predetermined quantities of gasoline to cars I have especially designed it for flushing water-closet bowls, and it is therefore s illustrated in the drawings and the descri tion thereof and that of its operation hereinatter contained are confined to that particular connection, wherein it is especially advantageous in the matter of economizing water by producing the flushing thoroughly with the minimum quantity thereof; in be ing immediately ready, after each flushing for repeating it, and in operating readily under any head of water, whether the pressure be one pound or a hundred pounds or more to the square inch, with at varying the quantity discharged for flushing errequiring adjustment or adaptation for different pressures. lilioreover, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in cooperative relation o a preferred construction of water-closctbowl, most clearly shown in Fi 1 to 3, inclusive, and described as follows;

The bowl 30 represented is of a usual general shape provided with a rear chamber 31 on which the seat 39, is hinged in an ordinary manner. The rim about the upper edge cat the bowl is formed hollow to afford a water-receptacle, which has a ventopening 34: (Fig. l) at the forward end of the bowl and opens at its rear ends into the chamber at opposite sides of an inclined valve-seat 35, provided in the forward end thereof, for flap-valve 36 (Fig. 3) hinged to swing to and from the seat. A catch 3'? rises from the base of the seat 35, and on the inner face of the valve is pivoted, in position to engage the catch. 37, a dog A vented cylinder 30 extends into the charm her 31 thro oh its top and contains a springpressed piston 4C0 having; its pendent stem 40* connected by a link 4-1 with a lever between the ends of the latter which is fulcrumed at one end to the re wall of: the chamber 31 and extends at its forward end to the catch 36.

l Vater flowing into the chamber 31. fills the bowl-rim 33 and the chan'ibcr the com bined capacities of which may be somewhat less than one and one-half gallons. The resultant pressure of the water in the chainber and that flowing: into it from the rim raises the piston L0 to cause the lever 42 to trip the dog 38 and release the valve 36, which the waterpressure against it opens to permit the water to discharge into and flush the bowl. With the forceful and gushing discharge from the chamber 31 the springpressure on the piston 40 depresses the latter to lower the lever 42 into the notch of the catch 37, and the valve 36 closes by gravity against its seat, while the dog 38 rides over the catch against the adjacent he valve-device i ,esaec i lever-end to lock the valve in its seated position, wherein the dog is again ready to be tripped in the next flushing operation.

The valve-device (Fig. 4L) controls the supply of flushing-water to the bowl and also regulates it, as hereinafter described. For these purposes the device is coupled, at the tubular extension 15 to a pipe 31, or nipple extending through the top of the chamber 31; and the niople 16 on the valve casing 8 is coupled to a pipe 16 leading from a source oi"- water under pressure, which may be the full city-pressure of any number of pounds to the square inch or a reservoir, or an ordinary overhead or rear flush-tank more usually provided for toilet bowl flushing though with my valve-device such tank is unnecessary and may be dis pensed with, thereby saving equipmentand space.

With the valve-device in place, to produce the flushing the operator manipulates the handle 2 by merely snapping it for rotating the valve 24: to register its port with the duct 22 and produce a sudden rush of water from the pipe 16 into the casing 8 about the valve 13 thereimand through the duct 22 into the cylinder 10 below the piston 19. The resultant pressure on the piston raises it to compress the spring 20 and 21 until stopped by the sleeve 19 striking the nut 17 the tension or the inner spring 20 being meantime insui'licient to unseat the valve 13. By the resultant encounter of the sleeve 19- with the nut 17 to start the valve and compression of the inner spring 20, the tension of the latter is rendered suflicient to overcome the resist ance of the valve 13, and the spring recoils against the nut to shoot the stem into the chamber 12 and quickly and fully unseat the valve to permit water from the pipe 16 to rush past the valve through the extension 15 and nipple 31 into the chamber, 31 while the valve remains open as it will. while water remains in the cylinder 10 under the piston 19. However, that water bleeds out more or less gradually through the valve-controlled passages 25 and 26, head 27, pipe 28, chamber 528 and nipple 31 into the bowl-chamber 31, and when it is exhausted from underneath the piston 19 the valve sea-ts itself by gravity supplemented by the recoil-force of the previously compressed spring 21 if provided though it need not he should gravity and the pressure of water from pipe 16 be sufficient to quicirly seat the valve 13 for shutting oil the flushing supply from the pipe 16 By properly setting the needle-valve 29, the outflow past it of water from underneath the piston 19 may be so regulated or timed as to have permitted only the predetermined and comparatively small quantity to enter the bowl-chamber and rim 33 are rec

insane-i to their combined capacity when the valve 13 becomes seated; and when once set for any such capacity, the regulation will be permanent therefor irrespective of the pressure or head of water from its source of supply.

As will be understood, the valve 24; need remain open only momentarily, being snapped into closed position by the recoil-force of its spring 2% upon releasing the handle 24*, since the gush of water into the cylinder beneath the piston 19 is sufficient during such momentary open condition of the valve 24, to compress the spring 20 for its recoilaction in raising the valve 13.

I realize that considerable variation is possible in the details of construction of the valve-device herein shown and described, and I do not intend to limit my invention thereto except as pointed out in the appended claims, in which it is my intention to claim all the novelty inherent in the in vention as broadly as permissible by the state of the art.

I claim:

1. A valve-device comprising a valvecasing provided with an inlet and an outlet, piston-mechanism having spring-raised piston and an inlet and an outlet, a valve seating in the casing against its outlet and having a stem passing loosely through and confining th piston against the spring, said piston-mechanism inlet having valved communication with the casing-inlet for controllably introducing fluid under pressure from the supply thereto to the p'iston-mechanism to initially unseat it and compress said spring for fully opening by its recoil the valve in the casing.

2. A valve-device comprisng a valve-casing provided with an inlet and an outlet, a cylinder having an inlet and an outlet and valved communication between its inlet and the casing-inlet, a valve seating in the casing against its outlet and having a stem extending into the cylinder, a piston movable along the stem in the cylinder and seating above said inlet thereto, and a valve-raising spring confined by the stem against the piston to be compressed by the rise thereof and thereafter expand in the direction of compression to fully open the valve.

3. A valve-device comprising a valve-casing provided with an inlet and an outlet, a cylinder having an inlet and an outlet and valved communication between its inlet and the casing-inlet, a valve seating in the easing against its outlet and having a stem extending into the cylinder, a piston movable along the stem in the cylinder, a regulating valve in the cylinder-outlet, and a vaiveraising spring confined by the stem against the piston.

4. A valve-device comprising a valve-casing provided with an inlet and an outlet, a cylinder having an inlet and an outlet provided with a discharge-regulating valve, a duct connecting the casing and cylinder inlets and containing a rotary spring-closed valve, a valve seating in the casing against its outlet and having a stem extending into the cylinder, a piston movable along said stem in the cylinder, and a valve-raising spring confined by the stem against the piston.

5. A valve-device comprising a valve-casing provided with an inlet and an outlet, acylinder having an outlet provided with a discharge-regulating valve and an inlet controllably communicating with the casing-inlet through a valved duct, a chamber surmounting the cylinder, a valve seating in the casing against its outlet and having a stem extending through the cylinder into said chamber, a piston movable along said stem in the cylinder, and a valve-raising spring confined by the stem against the piston.

6. A valve-device coniprisng a valve-casing provided with an inlet and an outlet, 2. cylinder provided with an outlet having a pipe-connection with the casing-outlet, a needle-valve in said pipe-connection cooperating with said cylinder-outlet to regulate the discharge therethrough, a valved duct connecting the casing and cylinder inlets, a valve seating in the casing against its outlet and having a headed stem extending in the cylinder, a piston movable along said stem in the cylinder, and a valve-raising spring surrounding the stem and confined between the head thereon and the piston.

7. A valve-devic comprisng a valve-sea ing provided with an. inlet and an outlet and surmounted by a neck terminating in a cylinder provided with an inlet having a valved duct-connection with the casing-inlet and an outlet provided with a dischargeregulating valve, a valve seating in the casing against its outlet and having a headed stem extending in the cylinder and provided with enlargements in said neck, a piston movable along the stem in the cylinder and provided with a stop, and a coiled spring surrounding the stem and confined between the head thereon and the piston to be compressed by rise of the piston until said stop encounters said head and thereupon recoil to raise the valve from its seat.

MICHAEL J. MQANENY. 

